I like the author’s enthusiasm, even if I don’t personally think proof of work blockchain is a general solution (proof of stake blockchain for specific applicat

I like the author’s enthusiasm, even if I don’t personally think proof of work blockchain is a general solution (proof of stake blockchain for specific applications is more interesting to me). I went to the distributed web conference a few years ago (and I was thrilled to have good and long conversations with Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf) but I am losing some interest in distributed web because other issues are more pressing that are only partly helped by distributed web: surveillance capitalism; attention economy; decoupling much of my time from using digital devices; government interference with free information flows; income inequality; lack of social discourse across political parties; etc. For me personally, these are the issues that I choose to address. A little off topic, but I have recently updated the way I use tech: use freedom.to to make time wasting web sites and apps unavailable for large blocks of time during the day; reorganized my email and calendar to use Google’s services (I pay for ProtonMail and FastMail but I find that compromising on privacy for personal efficiency is better for me - as an author and developer I get a lot of email that I want to process in a personal way, but also be hyper efficient); I leave my iPhone at home, relying on my Apple Watch for receiving texts and calls (when I am out in the world, digital life can be too large of a distraction). I have tried hard to use Mastodon social, but it takes too much of my time. I give myself about 45 minutes a day to be on HN and Twitter and that is sufficient to get notified of new open source projects, news, etc. So, morally and philosophically I support people working on decentralized tech, but at the age of 69, I put my personal effort into personal productivity and enjoying life.